mental health

Mental Health Across Generations: the role of antidepressants in maternal and child wellbeing

2019-07-08T13:13:04-08:00June 11th, 2018|News|

Existing evidence on the impact of antidepressant use during pregnancy on child development is often too mixed to offer women concrete answers about the implications for their children. This difficult, but urgent area of research has been a long-term research interest for Network Investigator Dr. Tim Oberlander, and the focus of a Brain Canada-KBHN postdoctoral [...]

Supporting Mental Health in Families Raising Children with Neurodisabilities

2019-07-08T13:13:05-08:00May 7th, 2018|News|

Between 40 to 70 percent of children with neurodisabilities struggle with emotional and behavioural problems during their childhood.   Research shows that family mental health is highly interconnected. “The family is a system in which each member affects the others - for good and for bad,” says Dr. Jean-Paul Collet, a Kids Brain Health investigator [...]

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